The Apex Legends Awakening Collection Event is set to begin on June 21 and end on July 5.

The next Awakening Collection Event will be launched on June 21 in Apex Legends Season 13: Saviors by both Electronic Arts (EA) and Respawn Entertainment, and will last for two weeks, finishing on July 5. The Awakening Collection Event introduces a new Olympus location, a new Heirloom, and the return of Control to Apex Legends. On your favorite Legends, there are plenty of exclusive cosmetics to be found.

One of the most recent additions is to Olympus, which now has a new POI in the northeast area of the map, between Gardens and Grow Towers. Lifeline’s clinic has been transformed into a Town Takeover site featuring high-tier treasure and unique features. The POI includes a medical bay that can heal you and your allies, as well as an Emergency Platform that can summon a single Care Package per match.

Along with the new POI, Valkyrie, the Winged Avenger, gets a new Mythic-tier cosmetic. Her Suzaku Heirloom is a spear, and it is the most recent to appear in the game, with Crypto receiving the last one before this. You can either create it with Heirloom shards received from Apex Packs or receive one as a reward after collecting all 24 items for the Collection Event.

With the Awakening Collection Event, the fan-favorite ‘Control’ Limited-Time Mode (LTM) returns to Apex Legends. This time, however, players will compete on current map rotations such as Olympus, World’s Edge, and Storm Point. There are a few adjustments to the Control LTM’s quality of life (QoL) that you can see below:

• The About screen now has new tabs, which are visible in Lobby and accessible in Control matches.
  • A breakdown of Rating values can be found on one of the new tabs.
  • The spawn system is explained in detail in the other.

• Introduce Ad Drones to Control for the sake of variety and storytelling, but you can also shoot them.
• Improved matchmaking by filling missing player spaces with new players at the start of Control to avoid lopsided matches.

Of course, an Apex Legends Collection event wouldn’t be complete without some new and exclusive cosmetics. Fuse, Ash, Lifeline, Horizon, and Loba, to name a few, will be getting some brand new skins to add to their arsenal. The Awakening Collection event also includes a new rewards tracker where you can acquire all 24 unique cosmetics to unlock Valkyrie’s Heirloom by completing daily and weekly prizes. If you don’t have the time to grind, you may just buy Apex Packs with Apex Coins.

Patch notes for Apex Legends – Awakening Collection Event

CONTROL LTM QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES

• Match Time Limit has been reactivated, and new logic for calculating when the match should end has been implemented, which should resolve the issue of matches terminating early.
• Players receive a full ult on respawn if they had the ult prior to their death.
• The Ratings awarded when you spawn on home base have been reduced from 75 per cent to 50 per cent to the next tier.
• Fixed an issue where players on the post-match podium were placed in random locations rather than in their teams.
• Spawn wave times decreased…
  • Max Deathscreen time: 20 seconds (old) 15 seconds (new).
  • Max Spawn Wave Time: 12 seconds (old) 10 seconds (new).
  • First Wave Spawn Max time: 20 seconds (old) 15 seconds (new).
• Enemy highlights and vehicle highlights have been turned off.
• If the opponent team made capture progress on a neutral point, force players to drain neutral point capture progress before starting to acquire capture progress for their team.
• Capture rate increased on Objectives based on the number of players capturing.
  • 1 = x1
  • 2 = x1.5
  • 3 = x2
  • 4 = x2.25
  • 5 = x2.5
  • 6 = x2.75
  • 7 = x3
  • 8 = x3
  • 9 = x3
• Turbocharger for the Havoc moved back to Purple Tier.
• Players are now allowed to equip 3x Scopes on LMGs and Assault Weapons in the Loadout Selection Menu.
• Players are now allowed to equip 4x-8x Scopes on Snipers in the Loadout Selection Menu.
• Added a Specialist Loadout Category to provide players more Med-Close Range options and merged the Marksman and Sniper Loadouts into a single Long-Range Loadout.
• Spawning Logic has been updated to try to prevent players from spawning near opponents.
• Even if they engaged in the activity and received personal Ratings, players now obtain Ratings for team actions like Zone Neutralization or Capture (previously the player would get one or the other).
• When the Lockout is broken and the Bonus Capture Timed Event is completed, players will no longer receive the Playing With Squad Rating bonus.
• When killing an enemy, the Squad Wipe Ratings Bonus has been removed.
• When Lockout is no longer available in the match, a HUD notification is displayed (displays again if Lockout conditions are met when Lockout is not available).
• Control: Made the scoreboard the first tab in the inventory. On the respawn screen, the scoreboard button was changed to the same button as the inventory.
• Arenas: Added new monitored player information (assists, and crafting materials) as well as round victories for the team to the second tab in the inventory.
• While spectating in Arenas, a scoreboard has been included as a tab.
• For both Arenas and Control, a scoreboard has been introduced as a tab at the end of the game.
• The shields regening UI on the HUD has been updated with new art and moved above the player’s unit frame.

IMC ARMORY UPDATES:

• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to enter through a breach in the collision mesh of the Armories ceiling by throwing grenades or using an Ash ult (Hotfix).
• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t mantle after using the teleporter in the Armory (Hotfix).
• Tridents prevented from landing on top of Armories.
• At Wave 8, the Gold Loot Roller reward has been removed.
• Hop-up spawning through the Smart Loot method has been reduced. The base hop-up spawn rate has been decreased to 50%, with gold hop-ups dropped to 20%.
• Outside of the Armory, Smart Loot is no longer generated for teammates.

BALANCE UPDATES:

Crafting

• R-301 and Rampage have been returned to floor loot after being removed from crafting.
• Wingman and CAR SMG have been added to the crafting list and removed from floor loot.

Out of Bounds

• When the player is on the ground, weapons and abilities will only stow in an OOB trigger (OOB timer will still tick up).

Bocek Bow

• The 3x Ranger is the default optic on the Gold variant.

Mirage

• Decoys from Valk Skydive Re-Deploy can now be used

Lifeline

• Combat Revive
  • The revive cancel option has been moved from Lifeline to the player who is being resurrected.
• D.O.C. Heal Drone
  • The healing pool was expanded from 150 to a limitless amount (still lasts 20 seconds).
  • The healing radius has been doubled.
• Care package
  • The cooldown time has been lowered from 5 to 3.5 minutes.
  • Instead of two Shield Cells, the weapon attachment panel now includes a Shield Battery.
  • On the first drop, there is no blue beam (will still show up after the Care Package lands).

WORLDS EDGE

• Some final rings with heal-offs have been fixed.

STORM POINT

• Some final rings with heal-offs have been fixed.

OLYMPUS

• Some final rings with heal-offs have been fixed.
• Rings have been tweaked for better map dispersion.

RANKED UPDATES:

Split Reset

The reset for this split is softer.

• 13.1 Split Reset: 6 → 4 divisions

Entry Cost

Lower entry cost

• -10 RP across all divisions and tiers.

Diminishing Kill Values:

More Rp for high elimination counts

The first three eliminations are currently valued roughly 100%. The next three are valued approximately 80%, and everything after that is worth approximately 20%. We’re altering it such that each team is worth around 20% less while retaining a 20% minimum. This will add 40 to 60 RP to winning teams with high eliminations.

GAME BUG FIXES

• Crypto can now use his Drone to scan Survey Beacons while riding the Trident. When Newcastle used his Ultimate while entangled by Ash’s Tactics, he could become stuck in the air for a few seconds.
• Newcastle glitch where players could rapidly fill Revive Shield by throwing and picking up a Knockdown Shield.
• The Newcastle glitch where players couldn’t reload while the “Destroy Wall” dialog was onscreen has been fixed.
• Newcastle glitch where his Ultimate would take longer to deploy than expected.
• Place a Totem on Mobile Shield to prevent Legends [Newcastle / Seer] from entering closed Vaults.
• When Newcastle enters a Trident, add soundFX.
• Fix a UI problem that prevented Legend information from appearing in the Firing Range.
• With Wraith Portals and Tridents, IMC Armory fixed problems where players could camp and block locations that weren’t meant to be blocked.
• [PS5] – Fix for a bug in which a player’s friends list does not refresh properly once the console is put into rest mode.
• Fix for some larger Legends being unable to enter Storm Point Containers when approaching them quickly and at an angle.
• Fix for Rampage/Sentinel in circumstances when the charging animation appears but the character does not charge while targeting down sites.
• Fix for situations where Bloodhound and Seer scans remained after the user exited the game.
• [Caustic] – Fixed a bug where players could still see the red highlight of the adversary while inside or behind the gas they placed.
• When Ash is shot, the blood splatter VFX no longer displays.
• When Seer utilizes the Heart Seeker passive, the “Amped Up” UI continues.
• [Control Mode] – Fixed a bug where the enemy team would continue the progress of a capture location without having to flip or undo the progress of the other team.
• [Control Mode] – UI problem where the Abandoned Game Penalty is really longer than the display warns has been fixed.
• [Control Mode] – An issue where picking up a weapon in Control always showed a full magazine has been fixed.
• Fix for players who appear to keep their thermite grenade after equipping it and using it on an explosive hold.
• [PS4 Pro / Xbox One X] – Fixes frame rate issues in several Olympus regions during gameplay.
• [PS4] – Improvements to performance in grassy regions of Olympus.